Changes ahead for Louisiana National Guard

General talks about future of troops at home

10:56 PM,
Jul. 15, 2014

Charles Prince, right, speaks with Maj. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis (left), adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard after Curtis spoke at the Rotary Club of Alexandria. Prince told Curtis he served six years with the National Guard Louisiana and Mississippi. Curtis is a graduate of Buckeye High School.

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Jeff Matthews
Gannett Louisiana

Changes are in store for the Louisiana National Guard in coming years.

After spending more than a decade as a major part of the conflicts that followed the Sept. 11 attacks, most LNG troops have come home from overseas deployment.

"We'll see what the future holds," said Maj. Gen. Glenn Curtis, LNG's adjutant general. "We will transition out of a true warfight. But we have so many missions around the world where we're doing peacekeeping or home country support. We'll still be sending people overseas, just not in combat. Inside our own nation, we have homeland security threats. And we have other ...